{"id":10418,"date":"2011-01-17T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:46:18","slug":"my-first-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10418","title":{"rendered":"My First Teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school I used to do this thing where I&#8217;d walk up to someone, lean on them for a minute or so, and then casually inject into the conversation, &#8220;You know, you&#8217;re supporting a teenager.&#8221;  Sigh.  At least I grew out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel, my oldest daughter, turns 13 today.  Thirteen was when I got <a href=\"?p=213\">my first computer<\/a>.  So that&#8217;s kind of a big deal for me.  It also marks the onset of the whole &#8220;teenager&#8221; thing, although she&#8217;s not yet suffering from any of the symptoms.  <\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/rachel.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='rachel.jpg' title='rachel.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>She passed her mother in height last year.  Now she&#8217;s only a couple of inches below me. (I&#8217;m 5&#8217;11 &#8211; 1.8m)  She&#8217;s enthusiastic about being tall, which is good, seeing as how she doesn&#8217;t have much choice.  Some tall girls are embarrassed by their height, but Rachel seems excited at the prospect that she could pass me.<\/p>\n<p>I turn 40 later this year. Time seems to be passing alarmingly fast.  At the current rate of acceleration, I&#8217;ll be 60 in about an hour and a half. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school I used to do this thing where I&#8217;d walk up to someone, lean on them for a minute or so, and then casually inject into the conversation, &#8220;You know, you&#8217;re supporting a teenager.&#8221; Sigh. At least I grew out of it. Rachel, my oldest daughter, turns 13 today. Thirteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}